AIHawk vs browser-use
browser-use is much bigger: 112.3k stars against 30.3k.
browser-use leads on customization and privacy and model freedom. AIHawk does not take any axis by a clear margin.
Stars and commit dates come from our own daily tracking. The six axes are read off each project's documentation by our review pipeline, so they describe what a project says about itself, not what we measured in its code.
Where they stand today
Drives a real, patched Firefox browser over MCP or OpenRouter so the agent can click, type and read actual web pages for automation rather than relying on APIs or scraped data.
- Stars
- 30.3k
- Tracked growth
- not tracked long enough
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 9h ago
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Your OpenRouter API key or assistant-provided model
An open-source browser agent that runs locally and is extensible with custom tools and provider‑prefixed models, enabling reproducible, privacy-friendly web automation.
- Stars
- 112.3k
- Tracked growth
- +6.9%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 4h ago
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Your LLM API key (or run free local models).
Six axes, head to head
Each axis runs 0 to 5. The label under a score is what that project's own docs claim, not a category average.
| Axis | AIHawk | browser-use |
|---|---|---|
Context depth How much of your codebase it sees before it answers: the open diff, the diff plus related files, or the whole repository. | ●●●●● No repo access | ●●●●● Diff only |
Noise control How it keeps output volume down — severity thresholds, deduplication, incremental runs over new commits only. | ●●●●● None mentioned | ●●●●● None mentioned |
Customization How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config. | ●●●●● Config & flags | ●●●●● Custom tools & prompts |
Privacy Whether your code stays on your own infrastructure: fully local, self-hostable, or cloud API only. | ●●●●● Cloud API key | ●●●●● Fully local capable |
Model freedom Whether you can point it at any provider, or it is wired to one. | ●●●●● OpenRouter / MCP | ●●●●● Bring-your-own / local |
Setup ease What it takes to get a first useful run out of it. | ●●●●● Config + API key | ●●●●● API key + install |
Which one to pick
Pick AIHawk if…
Real browser automation — pick AIHawk when you need an agent that interacts with complex web pages (mouse, keyboard, real page rendering) and can integrate with your assistant or OpenRouter.
Pick browser-use if…
Open-source & flexible — pick any LLM (including local models), add custom tools, and run browser automation on your machine.
- Customization: Custom tools & prompts (5/5 against 3/5)
- Privacy: Fully local capable (5/5 against 3/5)
- Model freedom: Bring-your-own / local (5/5 against 3/5)
What people want from each one
browser-use/browser-use
Hacker News: Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents drew 259 points and 100 comments.
Questions people ask
Is AIHawk better than browser-use?
browser-use leads on customization and privacy and model freedom. AIHawk does not take any axis by a clear margin. AIHawk is worth picking when real browser automation — pick AIHawk when you need an agent that interacts with complex web pages (mouse, keyboard, real page rendering) and can integrate with your assistant or OpenRouter.
Which of AIHawk and browser-use keeps my code private?
AIHawk: Cloud API key (3/5). browser-use: Fully local capable (5/5).
What does each one cost to run?
AIHawk: Your OpenRouter API key or assistant-provided model. browser-use: Your LLM API key (or run free local models)..
Full profiles: feder-cr/AIHawk and browser-use/browser-use. Everything else in Browser agents.